Teaspoon and tablespoon leveler



H. B. CRAIG.

TEASPOON AND TABLESPOON LEVELER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 16, I920.

Patented Jul 5 1921.

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H. B. CRAIG.

TEASPOON AND TABLESPOON LEVELEB.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 16. 1920.

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HAROLD B. CRAIG, OF SPRIIINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

TEASPOON AND TABLESPOON LEVELER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 5, 1921..

Application filed November 16, 1920. Serial No. 424,355.

To all whom itmag concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD B. CRAIG, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improve-v of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates particularly to devices for insuring the withdrawal of a leveled teaspoonful or tablespoonful of material from a container and finds its most important use in connection with the preparation of medicine doses and of food, particularly infants food, my object being the provision of a simple inexpensive device readily attachable to a bottle, jar, can or the like by means of which material withdrawn in the spoon is leveled off evenly with the edge of the utensil in a ready, quick and convenient manner.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates my present invention and forms a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the practical application of my invention to a cylindrical vessel,

Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section therethrough,

Fig. 3 is a top plan view showing the rectangular form for application to cans,

Fig. 4 is a cross section through aform of the invention as applied to screw top jars and the like, and

Fi 5 is a cross section showing a modified orm wherein the lip or leveling extension is braced or reinforced.

Fig. 6 is an inverted plan view of the device as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary inverted plan view of the form of the invention shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 8 is an inverted plan view of a fragment of the modification shown in Fig. 5.

Referring now to these figures, it will be noted that in each figure I have shown my improved device embodying a supporting.

band for engagement with the top of a receptacle, the plain circular band of Figs. 1 and 2 being applied to large mouth bottles and cylindrical containers of various natures whose upper open end the band 10.

is adapted to encircle and embrace.

In Fig. 8the band 10 is shown rectangu- -lar for application to rectangular cans and the like, while in Fig. 4 the circular band 10 is shown threaded for application to screw top jars and the like.

In every instance the upper edge of the supportmg band carries a disk or plate whose body is secured to the band or formed integral therewith for a portion of its peripheral edge, which disk or plate has a free portion bent downwardly and inwardly wlth respect thereto to form a reverting flange and a leveling lip against which a spoonful of material may be pressed in the course of its withdrawal from the container and readily and easily leveled. with the edge of the spoon as may be readily understood.

In the form of the invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the plate or disk is circular and is shown with its peripheral edge rigid with the band for the major portion of its circumference. This late is indicated at 11 and its downward y and inwardly inclined leveling lip is shown at 12, the relation of which to the body of the plate or disk appears most clearly in Fig. 2.

In Fig. 2 the plate or disk 11 is shown with one end portion bent inwardly and downwardly, to form a leveling lip 12 and in Fig. 4 the plate or disk l1 has a leveling lip 12" like the lip 12 of the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a slightly modified form wherein the downwardly and inwardly inclined lip or reverting flange 13 of the disk or plate 14 attached to the band 15, has a terminal extension 16' of relatively small proportions, which. is bent upwardly therefrom and attached to the lower surface of the disk or plate 14 so that according to stamped out of sheet material in the first instance and then pressed to form. In the latter instance it is obvious it will be necessary to slot the blankalong an arcuate line in order to free that portion of the plate from the band which is to be subsequently pressed inwardly and downwardly to form the leveling lip.

I am aware that devices of this general nature have been before proposed in the form of rods or wires extending diametrically across the open end of a vessel, but

' I am also aware that such devices are faulty and inefi'ective owing to the fact that in drawing a heaping spoonful beneath the wire or rod the mate-rial is very likely to flow over the rod or wire and in this way prevent the desired result which cannot be prevented with my improved device in the exercise of ordinary care.

I claim; I

1. A device of the character described consisting of a supporting band, a plate connected to and supported by said band and partially free therefrom, the free portion of said plate inclining inwardly and downwardly and forming a reverting lip for the purpose described.

2. A device of the character described consisting of a supporting band, a plate having a body portion whose edge joins the upper edge of the band, said plate also having a free portion forming a leveling lip inclined inwardly and downwardly beneath its said body. 3. A device'of' the character described ineluding means to engage the upper open end of a container for the purpose of forming a support, a plate whose edge is rigid with the said supporting means for the major portion thereof, and a lip carried by the plate and forming a reverting angle therewith as set forth.

.4. A. device of the character described in cluding a disk having, a fiat body portion and a portion inclined at a reverting angle with respect to said body portion, and supporting means engageable with the open end of a container and with which the body portion of the disk is rigid.

5. A device of the character described consisting of a supporting band, a plate connected to and supported by said band and partially free therefrom, the free portion of said plate inclining inwardly and downwardly and forming a reverting lip, said lip having a terminal upstanding extension attached to the lower surface of the plate as described.

In testimony whereof I have. afiixed my signature.

HAROLD B, CRAIG. 

